Built to Heal: MASS Design Group in Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer

On December 17th, for our virtual year-end event, we were joined in conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer, moderated by Boston’s GBH Executive Arts Editor, Jared Bowen.

Dr. Farmer’s unwavering commitment to health as a fundamental human right, along with his optimism, grit, and perseverance, have been instrumental to the ethos of MASS. 

Watch a recording of our end-of-year event here.

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MASS Design Group named WSJ Magazine's Architecture Innovator of the Year

MASS was recognized for their origins in healthcare and designing architecture as a medium for healing, through its public-health expertise and ability to reimagine spaces for everyday life.  

MASS is honored and humbled to be recognized for our collective work over the past 10 years. We were awarded alongside some of the most talented creatives in the world and we are celebrating our team, our partners, our donors, and friends who have made this meaningful work possible.

To read our full statement, click here
To watch a recording of the event, click here.

The Role of Architecture in Fighting COVID-19

In the midst of our current global pandemic, we seek to bring designers and architects to support the fight to keep everyone safe. We’re dedicating resources to form a core COVID-19 Response Team, who will be available to help our partners on the front lines, and developing a set of guides that can serve as a resource to all.

The response team will leverage lessons learned from the last ten years of working in infectious disease settings and will engage key thought leaders in design and healthcare.

Read more about our COVID-19 Response.

Read our latest guide: Designing Senior Housing for Safe Interactions.

Watch our virtual roundtable on healthcare design.

RICA wins ASLA Analysis and Planning award

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda was named the recipient of the ASLA's 2020 Professional Awards, in the Analysis and Planning category.

RICA will help ensure future food security for all Rwandans by educating the next generation of farmers and agricultural leaders in developing healthy, sustainable food systems. Informed by a multidisciplinary research and analysis process, the landscape team generated a 1,400 hectare land use and master plan guided by the unique theory of One Health, an understanding that human, ecological, and animal health are deeply intertwined.

Click here to read more about RICA.

Click here to view our submission on the ASLA Website.

 

MASS.Build

After a decade of implementing design-build projects, from Butaro Doctors' Housing and Mubuga Primary School in Rwanda, to the GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti and Ilima Primary School in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we are proud to announce the launch of our construction division, MASS.Build.

Driven by principals of design excellence, environmental stewardship, and human dignity, MASS.Build will expand our ability to deliver projects of impact from start to finish. In addition to our team of over 120 architects, landscape architects, engineers, writers, film makers, researchers, we are adding construction professionals and fabricators, representing 20 countries across the globe. By investing in local construction capacity MASS.Build assists our partners in delivering projects that maximize value throughout the supply chain.

Click here to read more about MASS.Build.

 

The Gun Violence Memorial Project

The Gun Violence Memorial Project opened September 19 at the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

The exhibition features four houses built of 700 glass bricks, each house representing the average number of lives lost due to gun violence every week in America. Families who have lost a loved one due to gun violence contributed remembrance objects, which are placed within a glass brick, displaying the name, year of birth, and year of death of the person being honored.

For more information about the project, visit www.gunviolencememorialproject.org.